Musical Movieland (1944) Poster

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5/10
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boblipton16 December 2010
This is a cobbled-together musical short subject, derived from several old shorts, and held together by a nominal tour group wandering around the Warner Brothers lot. It works all right in an odd way, including the three-strip Technicolor 'Indian Dance' shot with Busby Berkley interludes -- the silly costumes are meant to show off the brightness of the process since these shorts date from the period when Technicolor was still more of a curiosity than part of the vocabulary of the movies.

The most interesting part, for this old fan of the 'spot the star' game is to be able to finally put a face to Bess, Flowers, 'The Queen of the Extras'. She's a member of the group being shown around the lot and you can spot Bess by the grey pillbox hat she wears.
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3/10
A chance for Warner Brothers to recycle a lot of old material.
planktonrules13 October 2022
Oversaturated color vitaphone.

"Musical Movieland" is a film that is essentially a lot of clips from various previous Warner Brothers musical numbers all crammed together. The story stringing all these into one consists of a tour guide showing tourists the various Warner sets...and she and the tourists also sing all their dialog. It is nothing but a short made up of clips....and the copy shown by Turner Classic Movies is in color but the color is WAY oversaturated...almost making your eyes bleed at times!

Personally, the clips aren't from very many memorable films (MGM and Twentieth Century-Fox were making better musicals at the time). See it if you want, I'd rather just see the original films since there isn't much original content.
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